baliser

French

Etymology

From balise.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ba.li.ze/

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Verb

baliser

1. to mark with beacons
2. to waymark, to signpost
3. to prepare the ground
4. (computing) to tag

Conjugation

Conjugation of baliser (see also Appendix:French verbs)

infinitive	simple	baliser
	compound	avoir + past participle
present participle or gerund1	simple	balisant /ba.li.zɑ̃/
	compound	ayant + past participle
past participle		balisé /ba.li.ze/
		singular			plural
		first	second	third	first	second	third
indicative		je (j’)	tu	il, elle, on	nous	vous	ils, elles
(simple tenses)	present	balise /ba.liz/	balises /ba.liz/	balise /ba.liz/	balisons /ba.li.zɔ̃/	balisez /ba.li.ze/	balisent /ba.liz/
	imperfect	balisais /ba.li.zɛ/	balisais /ba.li.zɛ/	balisait /ba.li.zɛ/	balisions /ba.li.zjɔ̃/	balisiez /ba.li.zje/	balisaient /ba.li.zɛ/
	past historic2	balisai /ba.li.ze/	balisas /ba.li.za/	balisa /ba.li.za/	balisâmes /ba.li.zam/	balisâtes /ba.li.zat/	balisèrent /ba.li.zɛʁ/
	future	baliserai /ba.liz.ʁe/	baliseras /ba.liz.ʁa/	balisera /ba.liz.ʁa/	baliserons /ba.liz.ʁɔ̃/	baliserez /ba.liz.ʁe/	baliseront /ba.liz.ʁɔ̃/
	conditional	baliserais /ba.liz.ʁɛ/	baliserais /ba.liz.ʁɛ/	baliserait /ba.liz.ʁɛ/	baliserions /ba.li.zə.ʁjɔ̃/	baliseriez /ba.li.zə.ʁje/	baliseraient /ba.liz.ʁɛ/
(compound tenses)	present perfect	present indicative of avoir + past participle
	pluperfect	imperfect indicative of avoir + past participle
	past anterior2	past historic of avoir + past participle
	future perfect	future of avoir + past participle
	conditional perfect	conditional of avoir + past participle
subjunctive		que je (j’)	que tu	qu’il, qu’elle	que nous	que vous	qu’ils, qu’elles
(simple tenses)	present	balise /ba.liz/	balises /ba.liz/	balise /ba.liz/	balisions /ba.li.zjɔ̃/	balisiez /ba.li.zje/	balisent /ba.liz/
	imperfect2	balisasse /ba.li.zas/	balisasses /ba.li.zas/	balisât /ba.li.za/	balisassions /ba.li.za.sjɔ̃/	balisassiez /ba.li.za.sje/	balisassent /ba.li.zas/
(compound tenses)	past	present subjunctive of avoir + past participle
	pluperfect2	imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle
imperative		–	tu	–	nous	vous	–
simple		—	balise /ba.liz/	—	balisons /ba.li.zɔ̃/	balisez /ba.li.ze/	—
compound		—	simple imperative of avoir + past participle	—	simple imperative of avoir + past participle	simple imperative of avoir + past participle	—
1 The French gerund is usable only with the preposition en.
2 In less formal writing or speech, these tenses may be found to have been replaced in the following way: past historic → present perfect past anterior → pluperfect imperfect subjunctive → present subjunctive pluperfect subjunctive → past subjunctive (Christopher Kendris [1995], Master the Basics: French, pp. 77, 78, 79, 81).

Derived terms

• balisable

Further reading

• “baliser”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

Anagrams

• libéras
• sablier